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Helen Weinzweig is a crafty writer, with a sure sense of timing; when the nar- rator finally manages to turn her back on her nightmares and pipe dreams, it is a happy ending that rings true. FROG SALAD, by Sally George (Scribners; $10.95). A handfuJ of New Yorkers who survived their early twenties during the late sixties now pass the prime of their lives dreaming: a junior exec dreams of writing an ecological-disaster novel with cosmic significance; a lesbian ex-model dreams of wooing a teen- age Hispanic girl with freckles; a girl friend of hers dreams of waking up one morning a hermaphrodite (or at least of submitting to plastic surgery); a girl friend of theirs, now a seminarian's wife and a maker of cranberry-and-clam crêpes, dreams of finding a rewarding job (but keeps cancelling appointments for interviews). These clowns share one friend-a newcomer to the lowest rung of the Civil Service- who does manage to accomplish something, but what all this has to do with a frog salad ( live frogs) must be left for the reader to dis- cover. Sally George's ear for an era's clichés keeps the story rolling and spirits very high. AMERICAN ROSE, by Julia Markus (Houghton Mifflin; $11.95). Rose was a French fortune-teller who moved to Jersey City. Rose was also the mother of Charles, who married Etta. Charles and Etta bought a meat market and became very rich. Charles and Etta had a daughter named Helen and a son named Raymond. Helen played the piano and then she lost her mind. Ray- mond went into the meat business and became very rich. Raymond married Ellen, and Raymond and Ellen moved next door to Charles and Etta. Raymond and Ellen had two daughters, Janet and Rose, and for some reason Rose can't stop thinking, and talking, about her great-grandmother, her grand- mother, her grandfather, her mother, her father, and her sister. Rose is also a struggling novelist, and eventually she finds a sympa- thetic analyst, who asks Rose to write her autobiography. This saga looks accessible-simple sentences in short paragraphs, simple char- acters with short tempers-but it is APR.IL 27, 1981 as cramped as the small talk of a hypochondriac GENERAL LIGHT-HORSE HARRY LEE AND THE LEGACY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, by Charles Royster (Knopf; $15). An able study of the politics of resentment, a topic both sad and familiar. Henry Lee (1 756- 1818) was a military hero of the American Revolution who became a resounding failure in civilian life. His tale is ironic in that he was pas- sionately devoted to the Union that his revolution brought about, while his son, Robert E. Lee, led a revol u- tion against that Union. One reason for this ideological divergence may be that the father spent much of his later life away from his family, im- prisoned for debt or in the West Indies (for some five years), trying to recover from a beating he had received in Baltimore when he at- tempted to defend a small group of Federalists from the fury of a Republican mob. Another may be that the Toryism of his middle age concealed from his children the radicalism of his youth. Light- Horse Harry was a first-class leader of light cavalry, and Mr. Royster shows that in military contexts he was a superb calculator of risks and benefits, while in postwar civilian life he was a financial pI unger op- timistic to the point of recklessness. With age and disappointment, he turned into a hater. He was elected Governor of Virginia in 1791, but when the Republican Jefferson was elected President in 1801, Lee left public life and dedicated himself to loathing Jefferson, his followers, and what they stood for; to resent- ing recent European immigrants; and to defending the proposition that only men who had fought in the Revolution could be trusted to care for the country. Mr. Royster keeps things in balance, and sees to it that we do not entirely forget the ardent youngster as we contemplate the sour old man. THE BIGGEST COMPANY ON EARTH: A PROFILE OF A.T. & T., by Sonny Kleinfield (Holt, Rinehart & Win- ston; $14.95). A New York Tzmes business reporter gives us a very good idea of the corporate giant. Some aspects of his book reflect the almost frenetic pace of technological innovation in recent years; others demonstrate Americans' increasing dependence on rapid, reliable com-